is struck down the voting rights act by the u.s. supreme court one of the consequences going to be in southern states. well let me say first of all tom that i was one of those and i have to do a proper mayor coppa here at the turn of the of the decade there were numbers of voting rights and civil rights groups that started talking about the possibility of the voting rights act going down either through court action legislative action whatever and i was a kid when the voting rights act was passed in one thousand nine hundred sixty five and i thought to myself there's no way on god's green earth the voting rights act is going to end up being wiped from the books i was wrong i was completely wrong it did to get renewed what was at two thousand and six i believe but the consequences of what they're talking about now will mean wholesale activity on the part of certain states across the south and by the way some some municipalities in the northern states like pennsylvania as well they'll keep moving the goalposts in terms of the kind of b